Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

I am creating a function library and wanted to find out a couple of things.

1) Does any memory allocated and returned in lpDataFromApp get free'd by the execution engine? I have worked with the core/platform api and when running a map the "ToApp" is free'd by the application seems like it would work the same way, just reversed.
2) How is returning a NUMBER_PARAMETER any different than returning TEXT_PARAMETER?

I am writing for 8.2 on win32.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

) Does any memory allocated and returned in lpDataFromApp get free'd by the execution engine? I have worked with the core/platform api and when running a map the "ToApp" is free'd by the application seems like it would work the same way, just reversed.
>> Yes, the memory is freed.

2) How is returning a NUMBER_PARAMETER any different than returning TEXT_PARAMETER?
>>Since, the data returned is a stream of bytes, Based on the Return type, the transformation engine, assigns internally what kind of object it has to treat as (i.e text, number, datatime)
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Thanks, that is what I thought, just wanted to confirm.
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